Woman in Gray, 1942. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 31 in. (99.7 x 81 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of the Alex Hillman Family Foundation in memory and in honor of Rita K. Hillman, 2008.43
This is one of several paintings Pablo Picasso created in quick succession in Paris during World War II. In this fractured bust-length portrait of a woman wearing a veil and broad-brimmed hat, the artist’s abstractions evoke the violence and bleakness of life in the German-occupied French capital.
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